We want to hear your views on sexual health services and education in H&F!
Your answers will help Young H&F and other partners we work with to better meet the needs of young people around sexual health and wellbeing.
Are you a young person, aged between 14-25 in Hammersmith and Fulham? Then we need you!
Please click here for the survey
Please let us know your views.
Responses are completely anonymous
Hammersmith & Fulham Mental Health Discussion Group
The NHS is changing and it needs your help.
Have you or a loved one had any experience with services that look after one or more of these conditions:
– cancer
– mental health
– heart and lung diseases
– dementia
– autism
– learning disability
– long-term conditions e.g. diabetes and arthritis
Your local NHS needs to hear from you about how it can provide better care for people. Have your say to help make services better where you live.
See alternative versions of our survey here.
Any information you share with us will be anonymous.
Share your views and explore what the NHS Long Term Plan means for you at our discussion group. Our special focus will be on mental health provision in our local area. You can also share your views via the What Would You Do? survey online.
Wednesday 8th May, 17:00–21:00, Irish Cultural Centre, W6 9DT
The survey for the palliative care review is still open and we’re keen to gather as much feedback as possible from people who have had an experience of these services across Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham and Westminster.
Update on the review
Thank you to those who I have met already to inform this review. Since the review opened I have met with a number of groups of professionals and talked to over 40 people individually ranging from specialist level providers in both acute and community and inpatient settings, community nurses, GP’s, local authorities, CCG’s and Continuing Health Care teams, key national organisations and other experts in the field.
I have also met a number of patients at local Patient Reference Groups, Healthwatch meetings and am in the process of going into hospices to meet with patient and carer groups. More of these events and a dedicated focus group organised by the BME forum are still to come.
We would welcome any further opportunities to speak directly to patients about their experience of palliative care as part of this call to evidence. If you know of any opportunities to do so, we are keen to hear from you, please do get in contact.
Complete the survey
The survey can be completed in less than 5 minutes, for patients, carers and relatives it can be accessed here http://bit.ly/palliative-care-views. For staff and other interested parties including providers and key stakeholders it can be accessed here http://bit.ly/palliativecare-services . Alternative formats continue to be available on our website. Please continue to help to share this widely, the deadline of 13 February 2019 is approaching.
Click the links below for the relevant poster
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Penny Lansford
Independent Chair, Palliative care review
NHS North West London Collaboration of CCGs
web: www.healthiernorthwestlondon.nhs.uk
twitter: @HealthierNWL
To celebrate Safer Internet Day 2019, SAFE cic has launched a survey to help build a picture of digital awareness across the UK. Additionally, entrants’ organisations could win 20 free eSafety courses.
This survey is to find out from parents and carers what their experiences and needs are in relation to childcare. The information will be used to inform our Childcare Sufficiency Assessment. It will also help us plan to make sure there are enough high quality childcare places at the times and in the places that families need it.
Click Here to go to the Online Survey
Click Here for RBKC Information for Families
Click Here for the poster
Complete the survey by Friday December 21.
If you require any further information, please contact Emily Le-Gros on 07526 178 985
Click the image above for the main website
Riverside Studios will reopen its doors in 2019 after a 4 year redevelopment. The new multi-arts venue, back on its old site in Queen Caroline Street and Crisp Road, will include three flexible performance spaces for theatre, dance, music and TV production. It will also have a cinema and screening room open for all, a community and rehearsal room, event spaces for hire and a display of Riverside’s archive that spans its remarkable history.
Restaurateur Sam Harrison – who owned Sam’s Brasserie in Chiswick and Harrison’s in Balham, will launch his new independent 90-seat restaurant, Sam’s Riverside next summer, and the Riverside Studios award winning Bar & Café will also open with stunning views of the River Thames and Hammersmith Bridge.
The Riverside Studios team are currently conducting some valuable audience and local resident research and need your help! Please complete this survey to give us your feedback.
You could win a meal for two and two tickets to a show of your choice at Riverside Studios when the venue reopens.
To stay up to date with the latest news from Riverside Studios and be the first to hear about building updates, career opportunities and our opening programme, you can join the Riverside Studios mailing list at the end of our survey.
Click Here to go straight to the survey
How good is your charity? How do you find out? How do you improve? Whether it’s funders, donors, beneficiaries or your trustees asking, where would you start?
One of the best places is the Charity Excellence Framework – a free online tool designed to give you answers you need, in order to gain results you want.
We recently worked through the questionnaires ourselves and achieved the Quality Mark for DSC (we’re so proud!), so what are you waiting for?
Click here and let’s get started!
The DSC Team
It is really important that our members complete this survey, so that we can shape our future work together. Afterall, it is your collective feedback that enables us to inform and challenge those who design, commission and deliver the services you use.
Therefore, we would urge you to complete this survey in the coming week by clicking the Take Our Survey button below.
Don’t let Brexit mess with your business! Tell us your thoughts with our Brexit business survey
We’re asking local businesses about Brexit.
We want to make Hammersmith & Fulham the best place to do business in Europe and we’re already working with many local businesses to achieve this.
Our next step is to find out more about the impact of Brexit on you and our local economy and we’re keen to know what you think with our Brexit survey.
Answer our ‘Brexit and your Business’ survey below. Read more about the survey here.
Every two years, the FSI produces their Small Charity Skills Survey report, examining the areas within the charity sector that are highly skilled, and those which are trailing behind. We use this to direct our programming and influence sector-wide conversations, ensuring that we continue to address the most pressing challenges facing small charities.
The report is only possible thanks to input from our Members. Our next Small Charity Sector Skills Survey 2018/19 is open now and we want as many small charities as possible to complete it.
Between September and February, we will be releasing a seven short surveys to examine what skills gaps present barriers to small charities and how these can be overcome, kicking off with our Skills Gaps Causes/Impacts survey. You can complete the surveys as they are featured over the coming months, or if you’d prefer you can access all seven now.
As a thank you for taking part, we will be offering individual cash prize draws for each survey you complete, with a bigger cash prize draw for those who complete all seven. Find out more about the draws and eligibility criteria here, or read our blog.
Take this month’s survey here.
The Small Charity Index is the FSI’s quarterly ‘Pulse of the Sector’ report and has been collecting data from our small charity members about income, workforce and more every three months since June 2013.
This year we have announced exciting new prize videos for those who complete two surveys or more.
To enter the competition and have your voice heard, complete the survey now.
Last week independent think tank Centre for London launched #LondonGiving – a new ‘strategic review of giving in London’, a comprehensive look at giving in all its forms in the capital. While the report identified London as a global philanthropy centre, with 11 of the UK’s 20 largest charities and 47% of all English charitable income, some of the most interesting insights came in looking at the city’s small charities.
It’s an increasingly difficult time to be a small charity in London and beyond, and it’s the FSI’s mission to support the sector to become more sustainable and continue delivering their vital services.
The FSI and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have partnered to release guidance to help small charities improve their cyber security. The guide contains 5 simple, free or low cost steps you should take to help prevent your charity from falling victim to the most common types of cyber crime and other types of attack which charities are falling victim to across the UK.
The NCSC will be running training sessions at FSI training events until early 2019 to help charities adopt the guidance.
The Code of Fundraising Practice outlines the standards expected of charitable fundraisers across the UK, maintaining public trust in the sector. It also reassures the public that charities are accountable and will handle complaints appropriately.
Following their consultation in 2017, the Fundraising Regulator have published a draft Code of Fundraising Practice. This is the first time the whole code has been reviewed since 2005.
The draft is open for a 10-week consultation period, with the new code due out in Spring 2019.
Since October 2017, Bond, Humentum and a small group of UK-based international development organisations have been working with the Department for International Development (DFID) to co-create a model for cost transparency and cost recovery that provides a better delivery of UK government grants.
After a series of meetings, it has been agreed that DFID will pilot a model with guidelines which ensure that charities receive a full cost recovery for their work. New templates and guidance will be included for all grants made after October 2018, before becoming mandatory for all DFID funding, including contracts, from spring 2019.
ACEVO have launched their Jane Slowey memorial membership programme to provide expert support, guidance, advice and mentoring for women who are aspiring CEOs, or are in their first two years as a CEO for a charity. Priority will be given to those under 45, from BAME backgrounds and/or who have a disability.
To apply for membership, submit a complete application form along with your CV and a cover letter. Applications are open now until 30 September.
Lloyds Bank Foundation released a new research report yesterday looking at government spending on disadvantage over the last 5 years.
Its findings mirrored our Small Charity Index, showing that spending by government has fallen, with councils struggling to provide services in the face of rising demand. The report also found that the most deprived areas are those that are hit hardest, with councils shifting from preventative spending to crisis spending.
The full report and findings can be found here.
An alliance of funders including NCVO, City of London, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Lloyds Bank Foundation are calling for the new wave of unclaimed assets to form a Community Wealth Fund, delivering transformative social, economic and financial impact for communities who need it most.
The fund would come from bonds, shares, pension funds and insurance policies, as well as dormant assets including those trapped in charitable trusts who are no longer feasible. If these assets were used, the fund may value £4-5 billion.
Read the case for a Community Wealth Fund here.
Charity Finance Group have released their cost benefit analysis of what the impact of Brexit will be on charities. They found that, based on current policy statements, “there is high risk that the government will not use Brexit to support the charity sector. This means that charities will be left with all of the costs of Brexit and none of the opportunities that could be created”.
Check out their 6 recommendations for how a good Brexit would look for charities.
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